John Mortimer, Queen's Counsel, observed that " cross-examination " was not the art of examining crossly.

In 1596, Bacon became Queen's Counsel, but missed the appointment of Master of the Rolls.

Category: British Queen's Counsel

Category: Queen's Counsel 1597 – 1800

Category: Canadian Queen's Counsel

Barristers in New South Wales and Victoria are no longer appointed Queen's Counsel ( QC ), but as Senior Counsel ( SC ), as in Hong Kong, India, Ireland and South Africa.

The presiding judge was Lord Elwyn-Jones and the barristers were recruited from the Queen's Counsel, but had to remain anonymous.

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Category: British Queen's Counsel

Category: Queen's Counsel 1801 – 1900

Queen's Counsel is a status, conferred by the Crown, that is recognised by courts.

As members wear silk gowns of a particular design ( see court dress ), the award of Queen's or King's Counsel is known informally as taking silk, and hence QCs are often colloquially called silks.

The first Queen's Counsel Extraordinary was Sir Francis Bacon, who was given a patent giving him precedence at the Bar in 1597, and formally styled King's Counsel in 1603.

The new rank of Queen's Counsel contributed to the gradual obsolescence of the formerly more senior Serjeant-at-law by superseding it.

But the Queen's Counsel emerged into eminence only in the early 1830s, prior to when they were relatively few in number.

The earliest English law list, published in 1775, lists 165 members of the Bar, of whom 14 were Queen's Counsel, a proportion of about 8. 5 %.

Queen's Counsel and serjeants were prohibited, at least from the mid-nineteenth century, from drafting pleadings alone ; a junior barrister had to be retained.

This was particularly important in criminal cases, which are mostly brought in the name of the Crown, with the result that, until 1920 in England and Wales, King's and Queen's Counsel had to have a licence to appear in criminal cases for the defence.

Queen's Counsel were traditionally selected from barristers, rather than from lawyers in general, because they were counsel appointed to conduct court work on behalf of the Crown.

The title of Senior Counsel or State Counsel ( postnominal SC ) is given to a senior barrister or advocate in some countries, typically equivalent to the title " Queen's Counsel " ( QC ) used in som Commonwealth Realms.

In November 2004, after much public debate in favour of and against retaining the title ( see for example Sasha Wass QC ), it was announced that appointments of Queen's Counsel in England would be resumed but that future appointees would be chosen not by the government but by a nine-member panel, chaired by a lay person, which would include two barristers, two solicitors, one retired judge and three non-lawyers.

As Hong Kong severed ties with the United Kingdom in 1997, barristers are no longer appointed Queen's Counsel ( QC ), but as Senior Counsel ( SC ).

* Queen's Counsel – Historical Context a paper written in 2001 for the Nova Scotia Barristers ' Society reviewing the history of the QC and current practices throughout Canada and the Commonwealth.

Pearson's mother, Fanny Pearson née Smith, came from a family of master mariners who sailed their own ships from Hull ; his father read law at Edinburgh and was a successful barrister and Queen's Counsel ( QC ).

QC refers to Queen's Counsel, a type of lawyer in Commonwealth countries.

* Queen's Counsel QC ( KC when monarch is male )

On 15 June 1899, he took silk as a Queen's Counsel ( QC ).

He was appointed as a Queen's Counsel ( QC ) in 1978.

Dominic Charles Roberts Grieve, QC, MP ( born 24 May 1956 ) is a British Conservative politician, barrister and Queen's Counsel.

# Appointments ( for example, QC for Queen's Counsel, MP for member of parliament )

* Donald Findlay QC, born in Cowdenbeath on March 17, 1951 is a well known senior advocate and Queen's Counsel in Scotland.

He became a Queen's Counsel ( QC ) in 1968, and was called to the Bar in Northern Ireland in 1974, becoming a QC in Northern Ireland at the same time.

Despite attempts by his friends and family to get him to move on to a more respectable position for his age, such as a Queen's Counsel ( QC ) or a Circuit Judge ( referred to as Queer Customers and Circus Judges by Rumpole ), he only enjoys the simple pleasure of defending his clients ( who are often legal aid cases ) at the Old Bailey, London's Central Criminal Court: " the honour of being an Old Bailey Hack ," as he describes his work.

Educated at Charterhouse School, and then Balliol College, Oxford, he graduated in Philosophy and Ancient History, qualified as a barrister in 1954 and became a Queen's Counsel ( QC ) in 1965.

Ian Hanger AM QC, the original McKenzie friend, is now a Queen's Counsel at the Queensland Bar.

Upon his appointment as Queen's Counsel ( QC ) in 1974, Gleeson's career as senior counsel continued to focus on commercial and constitutional matters.

He was appointed Queen's Counsel in 1970 and co-founded the Hong Kong Law Journal with Gerald de Basto QC, another local barrister.

Bovill became a Queen's Counsel ( QC ) in 1855, and on 28 March 1857 was elected Member of Parliament ( MP ) for Guildford.

East was awarded the status of Queen's Counsel ( QC ) while Attorney-General.

Hayne was admitted as a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria in 1971, and was appointed as a Queen's Counsel ( QC ) in 1984.

He was appointed as a Queen's Counsel ( QC ) in 1987.